Qualifications

I joined PU PSMD in September 2013 as a Lecturer in Biomedical Sciences after spending the last 5 years working as a Research Scientist. I have chosen to now focus my time on teaching and education-based research.

My first degree of BSc in Medical Biochemistry at the University of Manchester, included a year in Industrial experience in Hertfordshire. I completed my PhD at Manchester in 2008 investigating the role of collagen fibril formation in embryonic chick development. I stayed at Manchester for a further year as a postdoctoral researcher to continue this research, before moving to the USA to take up a postdoctoral research fellow position at Harvard. There, I was based in the Children’s Hospital investigating skeletal disorders in children that have a genetic cause. I worked specifically on a particular disease called Camptodactylyl Arthopathy Coxa-Vara Pericarditis (CACP) that affects children in a similar manner to that of juvenile arthritis.

Throughout my career I have taken every opportunity to become involved in teaching and am thankful that my move to Plymouth has enabled me to be more teaching-focussed and apply my research skills to education.